I checked miles and miles of grade for some of the best motor grader operators in the country. You never want to get close behind a machine - those old guys would be shifting into high reverse before they'd ever look over their shoulder. They expected everyone to be smart enough to not be close behind them, and I guess we were because I'm still ticking. That was long before anyone ever thought of backup alarms.
Someone mentioned Amish kids - we have "tractor Amish" around here. A local Amishman has a Tandem dump truck cut down to pull behind a JD FWA farm tractor. About two years ago he had an 8 year old kid that would pull that rig down into the quarry, and they'd load it till it was running over, then he'd scratch all four wheels pulling up the incline to the scale. No brakes on the trailer, and wide open everywhere he went. All the haulers were ticked - they had to observe the legal limits, but this kid pulled out several tons overloaded every trip. I haven't seen that rig in a while - the law has started to crack down on them.
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